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category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
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- Person
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- Nuclear
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- Israel
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summary: "Yitzhak Hofi was the director of Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service."
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born: 1927-01-25
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died: 2014-09-15
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location: "Tel Aviv, Israel"
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Yitzhak Hofi was the director of [[Mossad]], [[Israel]]'s primary foreign intelligence service. He opposed the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak bombing]] in June 1981, primarily because there was no evidence that [[Iraq]] was yet capable of building a bomb. He was joined in this futile dissent by [[Yehoshua Saguy]], chief of military intelligence, and [[Yigael Yadin]], the deputy prime minister.[^1]
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Two weeks after the Osirak bombing, Hofi gave an unprecedented newspaper interview, criticizing politicians who were compromising secret intelligence. This was widely understood within the Israeli intelligence community as a criticism of Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]]'s public remarks about a secret underground facility.[^1]
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[[Rafael Eitan]] had a need to settle old scores with [[Yitzhak Hofi]], the head of [[Mossad]], and [[Avraham Shalom]], Shin Beth's director. This personal ambition and need for revenge drove Eitan's actions, including the recruitment of [[Jonathan Pollard]].[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 1.
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[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 21. |